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Tuesday 18 September 2012

Sample answer for a Situational Judgement question

For the situation described in the sample question, the competency tested is Analysis and Problem Solving, but this is not explained to the candidate!

The best and worst cases are designated in relation to this competency and its specific method tested (for this question is Expert Knowledge). The answers are:

Best: B - your colleague should be the person most knowledgeable in the field and before anything you should take the chance to discuss with him the key issues.
Worst: A – you will avoid responsibilities and miss the opportunity to learn the file.
Option C – this could work; but you risk to miss something due to fatigue and also you will lose the opportunity to review the key issues with the expert.
Option D – this can be done after you first meet with the expert; your manager should be familiar with the file but cannot give you all the key insights.


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Sample question Situational Judgement

Situational Judgement questions present a possible working scenario, a professional situation, and proposes 4 ways of actions. The candidate has to indicate the most and least appropiate alternative.

In order to correctly approach these questions, the candidate needs first to identify the competency being evaluated and afterwards to analyse the given alternatives from the competency perspective. 

As an extra detail, our questions not only test a specific competency, but also a specific skill/technique/practice linked to the competency.

Sample question:

You begin in a new job and you receive a complex file to study: long emails, complicated reports and archived files. The former colleague in charge of the file will leave tomorrow and you have to prepare an important presentation on the subject by the end of the week. This presentation cannot be postponed. What are you going to do?
a)     Reuse one of the previous presentations made by your colleague;
b)     Ask your colleague for a meeting before leaving to help you in structuring the data and identifying the key issues;
c)     Work over-time in order to read the materials and write a comprehensive presentation;
d)     Extract key issues from the materials, structure them in the presentation, and ask your manager for a review before presenting it.